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The RAM Raider

The RAM Raider

http://ramraider.blogspot.com/

A gaming journalist looking from the inside out, wondering why all the joy has been replaced by nonsense...

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  • EA Offer To Remove Dragon Age Embargo If 9/10 Awarded

    Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:16 in corruption

    For this story, you can pretty much remove “Eidos” and “Arkham Asylum” from our last few posts and replace them with “EA” and “Dragon Age: Origins”.Reviews for Dragon Age: Origins are under embargo until 5th November. But, in what’s...

  • The Price Is Shite (Starring Gillen, Taurus, Porter & Mott)

    Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 18:00 in critique, interviews

    Well over a year ago, we were asked to write a piece on how much reviewers should take game prices into account when reviewing and scoring in light of EA taking the piss out the entire country with its pricing for the original Rock Band set. The mag ...

  • OPM Dodges Arkham Asylum Embargo With A 9

    Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 06:00 in corruption, future publishing

    Still playing “spot the corruption”? There’s still time, as the general embargo hasn’t lifted yet. Ding! Ding!Ding ding ding!Scans of the entire thing here.By the way, if cunts keep posting numerous anonymous comments as if they’re from sev...

  • Why Publishers Love Exclusive “Reviews”

    Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 06:00 in corruption

    This ad is running on the back of issue 86 of GamesTM, out next week. It went to print before the issue of GamesMaster we featured last week was sent out to its readership, meaning that Eidos was privy to the score and text of GM’s “exclusive” ...

  • Arkham Asylum: We Have A Winner

    Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 18:00 in corruption, future publishing

    Have you been playing “spot the corruption”?Excitingly, the embargo hasn’t lifted yet. Ding!Ding!Ding ding ding!“With regards an article posted on RamRaider alleging that Eidos has fixed review scores for Batman: Arkham Asylum, we want to sta...

  • Games Media Awards 2009

    Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 06:00

    We were going to do this on Twitter, but fuck it.With your help, we got all of our favourites shortlisted for the GMAs last year. Sadly, the least deserving nominees then went about utilising the mags they and their mates write for to beg for votes, ...

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